Welcome Back Project Dogwaffle

The Renderosity MarketPlace is
excited to, once again, have Project Dogwaffle available for sale
to our community. For those of you unfamiliar with this piece of
software, it's a great resource for anyone who likes to paint,
sketch or simply be creative.

We're helping to welcome back this
teriffic software package by offering a limited time 45% off sale.
Beginning on Monday October 24th and running through Thursday
October 27th at 10:00am (cdt) you can save big on Project Dogwaffle
- PD PRO 5.1b

Who or what inspires
you?Dan Ritchie (project dogwaffle), Shlomi Mallachi
(smart3d), the guy in Russia (I think) from 3d-Coat (Andrew?) and
shame on me for not remembering his name at the moment, but just as
my PC runs on RAM (Random Access Memory) and ROM (Read Only
Memory), I seem to be operating increasingly on FOM (Forget-Only
Memory).

There's also Splinegod finally
in New Zealand, battling the odds against diabetes, Attila Kohl in
Hungary who's insanely talented and battling cancer, and “Dr
Petter” for creating Sculptris and keeping it free even after
accepting a position at Pixologic(!),... oh and musicians like DJ
d'Artagnan aka John Somnitz who almost made it to the Olympics,
then eventually made it there through his music at the Torino
Winter games (the One Project) and is now sadly battling MS (no,
not Microsoft you silly, he's fighting Multiple Sclerosis); and
Jose Luis Suazo aka 'eMaya' in Honduras who's managed to create
music that puts me at ease and helps me rest, and Wheela for going
against the odds and mounting a music label business from Jamaica.
Way to go man, stick with your passion and instincts! Then there's
also Stephen Wampler who was practically born in a wheel chair but
achieved something I haven't even imagined: to climb Yosemite's El
Capitan by hand in 15,000+ pull-ups, hanging in the wall for 6
days! Now that's inspiring!

How many years experience do
you have within the world of digital art?You know, we
all are eventually born and almost immediately thereafter get to
see the two most beautiful things there are on the planet, and
Renderosity is no different. Yes I do think God is a woman. I mean,
hey, God is perfect, right? So there.

Well, I started drawing stick
figures in kinder garten and I seem to recall winning a Kodak
Instamatic Ectachrome 'ish camera in 1967/68 when France Gall was
starting to make a real name for herself. In college I went for
Electrical Engineering, but added a 5th year for majoring in
Computer Graphics, realizing I didn't have the thing for designing
bobbins.... and my fate was sealed. Happy, colorful pixels is what
life is all about. 3D pixels, rectangular pixels, anti-aliased
pixels, shapely pixels, layered pixels,.... ah the pixels,
streaming pixels, pixels from outer space...

Do you have any additional
comments?I get asked a lot, what's with the name, why
Dogwaffle, what does it mean? What is a dogwaffle?

Ever went to college or left
home for the first time in your life, just to realize that mom
wasn't there anymore in the morning to fix you breakfast? Likewise,
you may get your feet wet at something new: you may have a bright
idea, a passion, a project, For example: the crazy urge and desire
to create your own paint proggy, inspired by Deluxepaint from an
era when “I have an Amiga” didn't mean you're dating a
Latino,... it meant you had a V-PC, a Very Personal Computer!...
but after a few weeks or months of programing, it just doesn't
really look like much of a paint program.... so, back to breakfast
without mom: Arm yourself, with a brand new toaster, try a frozen
waffle... the first few times, I almost guarantee you that, it's
gonna come out burnt and black and smoking, smelling like defeat
and failure... that waffle is good for the dog, that's about it,
that's a dogwaffle. But you know what? don't give up, keep working
hard at what you believe. You'll learn to operate that toaster in
your life. You'll fine tune your skills, your project will blossom.
You'll become a self-taught amazement to yourself. And eventually,
it'll be a waffle you can enjoy! As for your project, eventually,
it's a program you can paint with.